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Each year, when the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus comes to Washington, their famous circus elephants are helped off of the train early and are paraded the rest of the way to the Verizon Center. The annual event has been dubbed the “Elephant Walk.”

This year, the Ringling Brothers upped the ante by adding your favorite racing presidents to the spectacle.

For the first time, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt took part in this right of spring, arriving via bicycle taxi and escorting the famous Elephants on their walk, from DC’s Garfield Park all the way to the Verizon Center, where the circus begins tonight.